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and his plurality over his Republican OPP
ponent at about 10000. The Labor vote, ex-
cept in Kenton county, was nominal.
Local option carried two and perhaps three
counties. There will be about ninety Dem
ocratic majority in the Legislature on joint
ballot. Two Labor candidates, and perhaps
four Prohibitionists, are believed to be
elected to the Legislature. Returns from
sixty-four legislative districts show the fol-
lowing result: Democrats, forty-nine; Re-
publicans, 13; Labor, /; Prohibitionist, L.
An almost unanimous vote has been cast in
favor of a constitutional convention, and
Fayette county has voted against the whip
ping-post.
The Prohibitionists of Maryland, in State
convention at Glyndon, nominated the
following ticket: For governor, Summertield
Baldwin. of Baltimore; attorney general,
James Pollard, of Baltimore; comptroller,
Thomas E. Wright, of Cambridge.
The Republican State committee Of New
York has met and selected Saratoga as the
place and September IA as the date for the
meeting Of the State convention.
At a meeting of citizens of the District OF
Columbia, resolutions were unanimously
adopted asking the President to remove the
commissioners of the District. The resolu-
tions urge the removal of the commissioners
because they have betrayed the trust i'm
posed in item by refusing to make public
admitted defalcations in the water depart
ment; because they have imposed upon Con
gress by making fraudulent estimates for
new water mains; because they have clouded
the titles of large amount of real estate by
manufacturing and charging up against it
bogus Waterman assessments, i'll order to
make more favorable showing of the long
defrauded water fund, and because they have
used the public funds for private purposes,
as shown bv vouchers on file in the United
States treasury.
John Baell, aged thirteen years, who has
been in Jail at Eaton, o.. for six weeks, on
suspicion of having murdered his mother,
has confessed the crime. On June 13 his
father took his sister to town, leaving him
with his mother While they were alone in
the farmhouse he shot her twice and then
nearly beheaded her with an ak. He gave
an alarm to the neghbors, saying three
tramps killed his mother while he was
asleep, and he awakened in time 70 see them
leave with a wat. h and some money. The
watch has since been found in vault, where
the boy admits he threw it. No motive can
be assigned for his crime, except anger at
some favuritism he supposed was shown to
his sister.
At Tuscola, H., Mrs. James Hoyne was
gored and trampled to death by mad bull
which she was trying to drive out of her
front yard.
\ telegram from Galitzin, Pa, says that
recently Hungarian coke drawer went TO
work at the mines of the Blair Iron and Coal
Company. Later a number of his country
men sought him ard murdered him for
being traitor t. the callse Of the strike.
Several arrests have been made.
At a conference of the green glass manu-
facturers and workmen in Pittsburg settle
ment Of the wages question and working
rules for the ensuing year was effected. The
wages scale is the same as that in force dur
ing the last blast. 1t was also decided to
allow one apprentice to every fifteen journey
men.
No. furnace of the Pottsville Iron and
Steel Company has been relighted after four
years idleness. 1t will employ large force
of men.
About ffty delegates were in convention
at l,utfalo for the purpose of forming a
national organization of street-car drivers
and conductors. The meeting was called to
order by H. g. Taylor, of Philadelphia, and
Mortimer O'Connor, of New York, was
chosen secretary. The purpose of the con-
vention is to combine the various unions
the country.
The contract for building two dry docks
for the navy, one at New York and the other
at Norfolk, has been awarded to J. E. Simp
son & Co of New York, for 81 061 900.
The Board of Trade and City Council of
Macon. Ca, and the state Agricultural So
cietv, have united in an invitation to the
President and Mrs. Cleveland and the mem
bers of the Cabinet and their wives to visit
that city during the State fair in the latter
part of October.
About fifty persons, from nearly every
State in the Union, ascended Pixies Peak re-
Gently and organized meeting on the sum-
NIT. S. J. Fisher, of st. Louis Judge Kerr,
Of Pueblo, Col, and Kate P Hampton, of
South Carolina, were appointed a committee
to draft resolutions inviting President Cleve-
land to extend his Western trip to Colorado
and Pixies Peak.
General Sheridan has written to the COM
mittee of arrangements that he will attend
the reunion of the Army of the Tennessee
in Detroit on September IA.
The survivors of the "Bucktair' regiment
have met in Harrisburg and decided to have
a reunion at Williamsport on December q.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland, accompanied by
her mother and aunt, have arrived at Marion,
Mass. They are the guests of General A. W.
Greely, at his summer residence.
Thomas T. Weirman, Sr., superintendent
and chief engineer of the Pennsylvania
Canal Company, has died in Harrisburg,
aged IA years.
During an emancipation celebration in
Graham county, Kan, several
fights occurred, in which one man was killed
and another mortally injured. The man
killed was bystander, not participants.
A heavy wind and rainstorm visited
Charleston, W. Va, uprooting trees, blowing
lown fences, uproofing buildings and over
turning small houses. Great damage was